Gaming has become a sport

[Paladin D]

[b]Cyberathlete Professional League[/b]
[url="http://www.thecpl.com/events/"]http://www.thecpl.com/events/[/url]
[quote]The Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships 2005, primarily sponsored by Intel, will occupy 150,000 square feet of exhibition space at the Gaylord Texan Resort. The event will host 100 exhibitor booths, making it the largest esports event ever.
In addition to hosting the USA's only Official Stop of the $1,000,000 CPL World Tour, the Summer Championships will also host official competitions for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat, WarCraft III and Halo 2. This event will also feature several non-official tournaments from a wide spectrum of PC games. About $200,000 in cash and prizes will be offered in the different tournaments.


The Summer Championships will take place Wednesday, July 6 to Sunday, July 10, 2005 at the lavish Gaylord Texan Resort, in Grapevine, Texas. The CPL has reserved 1,000 rooms (its largest block ever) to help accommodate the more than 5,000 gamers from over 50 countries that are expected to attend this world-class event.[/quote]




[b]Cyberathlete Amatuer League[/b]
[url="http://www.caleague.com/?page=history"]http://www.caleague.com/?page=history[/url]
[quote]The Cyberathlete Amateur League (CAL) was created in March 2001 when the Cyberathlete Professional League acquired a small online league named Domain of Games.

CAL was launched with only one Counter-Strike division and has since expanded to include nearly thirty game divisions with hundreds of thousands of registered league members.

CAL attracts both seasoned veterans of online competitive gaming, as well as gamers just starting out, and is an innovator within the online gaming community. The primary goal of CAL is to be the standard for online competitions worldwide.[/quote]






[b]Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships 2005[/b]
[url="http://www.thecpl.com/summer2005/"]http://www.thecpl.com/summer2005/[/url] & [url="http://www.cplcast.com/"]http://www.cplcast.com/[/url]



[url="http://www.tsncentral.com/"]http://www.tsncentral.com/[/url] is covering this whole event, and it's pretty awesome (check out the video, it's LIVE). People win money in these tournaments (list of games here and their prizes [url="http://www.thecpl.com/summer2005/?p=tournaments"]http://www.thecpl.com/summer2005/?p=tournaments[/url]).



Ah, gaming is truely a beautiful thing.

[reelguy227]

I agree ,but people can get a little obsessed ,thats when it starts to get out of hand and materialistic.

[Paladin D]

[quote name='reelguy227' date='Jul 9 2005, 01:01 PM']I agree ,but people can get a little obsessed ,thats when it starts to get out of hand and materialistic.
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Samething can be said with professional sports .

[Dreamweaver]

Well, there's also [url="http://www.mlgpro.com"]Major League Gaming[/url]. I think the whole idea of "professional" gaming groups is crazy. Sure, it might be nice making several hundred dollars at a tourney, but definately can't make a living playing video games.

On the Bungie forums, I've noticed that more than a handful of MLG "pros" have a nasty elitiest attitude; that they're better than casual gamers.

[Paladin D]

[quote name='Dreamweaver' date='Jul 9 2005, 01:19 PM']Well, there's also [url="http://www.mlgpro.com"]Major League Gaming[/url]. I think the whole idea of "professional" gaming groups is crazy. Sure, it might be nice making several hundred dollars at a tourney, but definately can't make a living playing video games.

On the Bungie forums, I've noticed that more than a handful of MLG "pros" have a nasty elitiest attitude; that they're better than casual gamers.
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True, but same can be said with professional sports (look at baseball for example). Unfortunately pride is rampant in human society, so no doubt there would be "elitiest attuide". The people that compete know they can't make a living, but it's an activity that many enjoy. Look at the Olympics, many of the athletes in the Olympic games do not do those sports for a living.

[Philippe]

if u wanna see the action live check out www.tsncentral.com i used to be way into this but i got out of it because its extremely obsessive

[Socrates]

Yes, this is a beautiful thing! Now weak, flabby, pasty couch-potato nerd-types can also be serious competititve athletes, with the outrageous dough and everything!

[Paladin D]

[quote name='Philippe' date='Jul 9 2005, 07:28 PM']if u wanna see the action live check out www.tsncentral.com i used to be way into this but i got out of it because its extremely obsessive
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I was watching the CS 1.6 CPL Summer Championship match on TSN Central, awesome stuff.



Btw Socrates, many of the players I saw there weren't fat; they looked like typical teenagers and young adults. I guess it has to do with the fact that the players (over 5,000) were from over 50 countries, not just the obese-filled United States.

[Philippe]

its true these guys really arent the super nerds you imagine they would be. TsN has grown a lot since the days i used to listen to them, it's pretty amazing actually how much they do now, its practically ESPN. Congrats to sk.swe for winnin 1.6!

[ilovechrist]

man i figured the subject of the thread was referring to DDR...

people around here are obsessed with Dance Dance Revolution... it's kinda freaky.

[Didacus]

[quote name='Dreamweaver' date='Jul 9 2005, 12:19 PM']Well, there's also [url="http://www.mlgpro.com"]Major League Gaming[/url]. I think the whole idea of "professional" gaming groups is crazy. Sure, it might be nice making several hundred dollars at a tourney, but definately can't make a living playing video games.

On the Bungie forums, I've noticed that more than a handful of MLG "pros" have a nasty elitiest attitude; that they're better than casual gamers.
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Can't make a living playing video games... the same was true of hockey in the early 20th century... now look where they've gone....

I wish I was a kid again! Man... I was amongst the best at pacman, tetrix and a bunch of others... I set many records that my friends and family could not even approach (and I mean they could not even get half way to my score!), not that I was fanatical... I didn't spend all my money at the arcade... but I had skill.... *sigh*, alas, to be young again.... oh well... back to work...

Please note that someone must always keep humility during and after competitions. Things like - never celebrate a victory in front of your opponent, always show respect before and after a match, do your best but play for the challenge and the fun.

And my own golden rule:

He who fights (or competes) for himself has already lost.
(best to find a noble cause to play for, like donating part or all of your winnings to charity).

And I like Wayne Gretzky's attitude towards his talent, best expressed with "He never thought he was bigger than the other players nor the game itself."

But all in all, there is nothing wrong with acknowledging one's own talent.

[Paladin D]

[quote name='Didacus' date='Jul 12 2005, 10:44 AM']Please note that someone must always keep humility during and after competitions.  Things like - never celebrate a victory in front of your opponent, always show respect before and after a match, do your best but play for the challenge and the fun.

And my own golden rule:

He who fights (or competes) for himself has already lost.
(best to find a noble cause to play for, like donating part or all of your winnings to charity).

And I like Wayne Gretzky's attitude towards his talent, best expressed with "He never thought he was bigger than the other players nor the game itself."

But all in all, there is nothing wrong with acknowledging one's own talent.
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Exactly, couldn't agree with you more. I don't like players who brag over their victory in the face of their opponents.

[White Knight]

Bragging in Sports is unsportsman like anyway, its just wrong, its just a game, people need to realize this, because it gets out of hand way too often, and it feeds pride.

[Socrates]

[quote name='Paladin D' date='Jul 10 2005, 12:42 AM']I was watching the CS 1.6 CPL Summer Championship match on TSN Central, awesome stuff.
Btw Socrates, many of the players I saw there weren't fat; they looked like typical teenagers and young adults.  I guess it has to do with the fact that the players (over 5,000) were from over 50 countries, not just the obese-filled United States.
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My post was tongue-in-cheek and sarcastic - not intended to imply that every serious gamer is out-of-shape and weak, simply that mashing buttons hardly qualifies as athletic prowess in my view. Yeah, it's a skill, but gamers aren't athletes.

[Didacus]

[quote name='Socrates' date='Jul 12 2005, 12:21 PM']My post was tongue-in-cheek and sarcastic - not intended to imply that every serious gamer is out-of-shape and weak, simply that mashing buttons hardly qualifies as athletic prowess in my view.  Yeah, it's a skill, but gamers aren't athletes.
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In my view basketball is not a sport either. Weither is syncronised swimming and figure skating. We seem to agree on something Socrates!

take care...